“I don’t know what the league rules are, to be quite honest with you, because this is something that just came up last year, so Ive been retired. It’s unfortunate … everyone has their ways of doing peaceful protest … And as long as it’s peaceful … if every protest was peaceful, the world would be a better place, right? You may not necessarily agree with how someone is protesting, but as long as it’s peaceful … Now, saying that, would I kneel during the anthem? No. I don’t think I would kneel during the anthem. But everyone has their own personal choice. I think people have lost sight of the fact of what someone is protesting about, and they are focusing on how they’re protesting, which is unfortunate. But its an uncomfortable conversation. It’s an uncomfortable conversation for a lot of people, and I don’t know if anyone has the right answer.”

There you go. Jeter would not kneel, but he doesn’t mind players doing so as long as the protest remains peaceful.

Perhaps more importantly, Jeter says people have lost sight of why players are kneeling. The reason San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — and now many other NFL players — started kneeling during the national anthem was to protest racial inequality in the United States. It wasn’t to protest against the military or veterans as some may suggest.